Certification Problem

Input (COPS 591)

We consider the TRS containing the following rules:

+(0,y) y (1)
+(s(x),y) s(+(x,y)) (2)
*(0,y) 0 (3)
*(s(x),y) +(*(x,y),y) (4)
*(x,s(y)) +(x,*(x,y)) (5)

The underlying signature is as follows:

{+/2, 0/0, s/1, */2}

Property / Task

Prove or disprove confluence.

Answer / Result

No.

Proof (by csi @ CoCo 2020)

1 Non-Joinable Fork

The system is not confluent due to the following forking derivations.

t0 = *(s(x182),s(y))
+(*(x182,s(y)),s(y))
+(+(x182,*(x182,y)),s(y))
= t2

t0 = *(s(x182),s(y))
+(s(x182),*(s(x182),y))
+(s(x182),+(*(x182,y),y))
s(+(x182,+(*(x182,y),y)))
= t3

The two resulting terms cannot be joined for the following reason: